Chapter 637: Settling Down in the Stone Forest Castle
The wind in the mountains shuttles through the forest, and the sun shines through the clouds. Even in this abandoned world, there is still some tranquility.
After entering the bar, Tilan turned her eyes, and her light blue eyes looked at this fresh and different environment with curiosity, like a fledgling. Her simple coat and hood covered her beautiful blue hair, and even her face was hidden under the veil.
The scene she saw had many similarities with her imagination, such as the beer cup full of bubbles, hot roast potatoes and bread, the slightly sour and salty smell, the hanging smoked sausages, the swaying flames in the fireplace, the dust on the ground and the oil stains on the wooden table. For
her, who is used to the modern and clean society, such an environment has another sense of reality.
However, there are no magicians, adventurers, young and energetic guys, and bards playing music as imagined in many stories. There are more guests with sweat and open collars to eat and drink.
"What are you going to eat, Heshia?" asked a companion.
"The most famous black pork here." The girl answered immediately.
"Then four black pork chops, two toasts, a pot of beer, and a vegetable." Guy said today's meal plan.
"Okay, wait a moment." The waiter wrote it down and responded.
Sitting next to Tilan, Orles was a little awkward at this moment. Tilan noticed her little mood and asked.
"What's wrong?" "
Dirty, smelly." Orles said her thoughts bluntly. Fortunately, her voice was not loud and the surroundings were noisy, so only a few people at the same table could hear it.
"This is the only way now." Tilan held the back of her hand and whispered in Orles' ear to comfort her.
For elves, especially ice elves who are famous for their cleanliness, this environment is indeed very different from Orles' previous life. However, to Tilan's surprise, she only showed it today. She was very used to it in the grassland settlement before.
Perhaps in her subconscious, the trees and rocks in the wild are part of nature and cannot be considered dirty, but the environment full of oil and sweat smell is unbearable for this ice elf lady.
"Woo..." Orles pouted, and slowly calmed down with Tilan's comfort.
Seeing her reluctant look, Tilan wanted to laugh. After losing her memory, Orles was less arrogant and more coquettish than before.
Several people listened to the people around them eating and chatting. After a while, the four black pork barbecues they ordered were also served.
The pork was fat and lean, and it was placed on the plate with sizzling hot oil. There were a few parsley leaves on the side, which was very tempting.
It was a rare piece of good meat. After eating vegetarian food for nearly a month, this was the second meat meal for the four people, and it was more delicious than the lamb chops a few days ago.
The hot steak was bitten open in small bites. Because there was no knife, it could only be torn with teeth, but the process was also easy because the meat was roasted very well.
After eating, the sauce and salt on the steak mixed with the chewing of the meat fiber, under the effect of heat, there is a kind of amazing taste.
It didn't take long before the palm-sized steak was eaten up, and then slowly ate the toast.
Orles on the side ate more slowly. She seemed to be happy and a little disgusted with the steak. Only after eating did her brows relax.
After eating this rare and luxurious lunch, the four walked out of the bar, and the air outside was much fresher.
"This meal is 62 steel stamps, almost all of what I prepared before." Guy sighed.
"So expensive?" Fran was surprised.
"Of course, do you think that meat is cheap, especially food with little pollution."
"Let's go, it's time to get down to business. Take advantage of the noon. I will sell the fur coats I brought in at the market in the afternoon, and then buy some necessary things."
"As for you..." Guy looked at Fran and Heshia.
"Fran, I've seen the ruins you drew for us before. I was supposed to let you go after verifying it, but after spending some time with you, I don't care whether this reward is true or not. You can go wherever you want later."
"Miss Heshia and Miss Orles, you said you wanted to come to the big city. Now you're here. It's up to you what you plan to do next. If you feel there's nowhere to go for the time being, you can come back to the settlement with me tomorrow. Boss Moose, Sura and I welcome you."
"If Miss Heshia wants to stay in Stone Forest Castle temporarily, you'll need a lot of stamps, which is money. There are about 3,000 people living here. Most of them work for the Gray Feathers, and a small number are native to the Gray Feathers. There are also one or two thousand floating personnel, that is, people who don't have permanent residence permits." "
If you don't have a permit, you can only stay overnight in a hotel. These hotels are run by the Gray Feathers behind the scenes. They cost at least 15 stamps per night, and the better rooms are more than 20 stamps. If you don't have money, you have to leave Stone Forest Castle before nightfall, otherwise you will be caught and punished by patrolling guards."
"The city has been recruiting skilled craftsmen and experienced doctors. Miss Heshia meets both of these requirements. If you want to stay here permanently, you can apply at the meeting hall. The Gray Feathers are kind to those who are capable."
"Guy, good!" Fran gave a thumbs up, praising Guy's style of anticipating what they urgently need and telling them everything.
"I guess I will stay here for a few days. As for the issue of money, I still have a lot of skills. I won't live here permanently, but staying for a few days won't be a problem." Fran thought for a while.
"How is the public security here?" The girl thought that if she lived here for a long time, she would be more tired if the public security was too poor.
"Don't worry about the public security. This place is the only one with real public security in this area of hundreds of miles." Guy raised his finger.
"It is relying on the order here that the Gray Feathers can maintain their upper-class status in this land."
"Then I guess I will have to stay for a while. I heard that there is a library here. If I want to return to my hometown, at least I have to determine where I am."
"Yes, the library is also a place we must go during our travels." Fran remembered something.
After that, the four of them separated. Fran was going to find some simple work to earn money for a temporary stay, while Heshia took Orles to the meeting hall in the center of the Stone Forest Castle.
More than ten minutes later, Heshia stopped in the square. There were two guards standing in front of the church-like hall building in front of them, and there seemed to be members taking a rest in the gatehouse.
Walking forward, the girl was about to say hello, but the two guards lowered their spears in alert.
"What are you doing here?" Although judging from their figures, the two should be girls, but they both covered most of their faces, which was indeed a bit suspicious.
"I'm here to apply for permanent residency." Tilan observed the two guards for a while. Their strength was about Sequence 2. Their extraordinary core structure was simple, but their physique was quite special, much stronger than native humans.
"You? What can you do?" The two were skeptical.
"I'm good at cutting clothes." After thinking about it, she still said tailoring ability instead of healing ability. After all, being a doctor would take up a lot of time, and she didn't want to be involved in too complicated interpersonal relationships.
"What's the big deal." The two showed contempt. It's just sewing clothes, which can be found everywhere.
"I do it better." "
Go back. We don't lack tailors here. It would be offensive if you say it again."
"Okay." There was no rush to apply for qualifications. Tilan thought about it and decided to go to the market to have a look.
In the afternoon, she and Orles walked through the market, where they could see many vendors selling common foods such as flour, potatoes, and fruits, as well as rare guns and steam engines.
"Fran is over there." Tilan saw a figure in the distance helping someone debug a steam engine. It was her companion who had just left.
She looked for a while, but did not squeeze in with the curious onlookers. Instead, she prepared to see how Guy's coat was selling.
After passing through the crowd and coming to the area selling clothing fabrics, Tilan saw 6-7 vendors, each of which hung a lot of sewn clothes and bedding.
"See, this is a masterpiece..." Guy stood on a box, holding a coat sewn by Tilan in each hand, and promoted it to everyone. His words were exactly the same as when he was in the Red Pomegranate Settlement.
"It looks really well-made."
"The stitches are very delicate and neat."
"The clothes are very symmetrical, not crooked or uneven." Several experts commented.
"The workmanship is excellent and the quality is good, but it's a pity that the material is too ordinary. This kind of fur is of low grade and can't be sold at a high price."
"Indeed, it's OK for ordinary people to buy this, but the gray feathers in the castle will definitely not wear it."
"I'll give you 120 stamps." Someone offered.
"This price is relatively high."
"150 stamps." Someone else bid, and the price increase was not so wide.
In the end, Guy sold four pieces at a price of about 160 stamps. Others wanted to buy but were reluctant to spend money. Guy did not rashly lower the price, but asked everyone to come back tomorrow. After
collecting the things, Guy saw Tilan coming over and handed her 200 stamps, which was her dividend, after all, the clothes were made by her.
"We deducted part of the money for food and drink on the way." After all, he had paid for the meals before.
"It's okay." Tilan didn't care about the money, but was just curious about how Guy could sell it so quickly.
Then she told about her experience of being coldly received in the meeting hall.
"Ha, it's normal that those guys don't know people, but if you want to apply, it's better to find a gray feather species guarantor. I happen to know one and can tell you about it."
"Come with me." Guy waved his hand, and then took Tilan and Ores to the rich area in the mountain castle.
When he arrived at the entrance of the corridor of the rich area, he took out part of the steel seal and handed it to one of the guards, asking him to help pass the message.
About half an hour later, a middle-aged man wearing a hat and decent clothes came out. He saw Guy and walked slowly towards him.
"Guy, you are still alive. This time you specifically look for me. Are you going to help me do something?" He used to be Guy's employer. The two of them knew each other. Guy had left a good impression on him in the past, otherwise he would not have come out to meet.
"No, this time I came to recommend a friend to you. She plans to live here permanently." Guy stepped aside.
"Recommender." The other party frowned. He didn't like the idea of guaranteeing strangers for nothing.
Tilan thought about it and took off her hood and veil. Her smooth hair fell from her shoulders, looking a little messy. Her face under her bangs was a little immature, but there was an exceptionally clear and quiet beauty. Even the other party, who had seen many handsome races, was stunned.
"Who is this?"
"This is Miss Heshia. She and her companions fell from the sky by accident and got lost in the grassland. Now they are looking for a way to go home and want to live in the mountain castle for a while." Guy introduced quickly.
"Miss Heshia, right?"
"Yes, who are you?" Tilan remembered the strict teachings of the etiquette teacher before, and responded with a dignified posture, like a lady in a painting, which made others involuntarily enter the state and become serious.
"I am Sigmund, a scholar of the Gray Feather Race." He took out a pair of glasses from his pocket and put them on so that he could see the girl in front of him clearly.
As a gray feather species, he has dark gray eyes and black hair (strictly speaking, there is no gray in nature, only different degrees of black). His back is slightly raised, where there should be retracted wings.
Gray feather species have many characteristics of "cicadas". They are not human-shaped when they are young, and they will transform into human-shaped when they are sub-adults.
"In that case, please follow me, Miss Heshia." He invited Heshia to sit in the mansion.
"Thank you."
Then the four of them entered the rich area, passed through many beautiful houses, and then entered a medium-sized mansion with a fenced lawn garden around it, which was pleasant.
"Guests are coming. Please prepare the tea in my study cabinet."
"Yes, sir." The four gray feather maids and waiters bent down to obey, then looked up and looked at the few people curiously.
"I'll just walk and sit in the yard for a while." Guy thought about it, but still didn't go in. After all, he really didn't know any etiquette, and it would be a bit abrupt to sit there.
"In that case, prepare some food for Guy." Sigmund raised his hand, and the two waiters nodded, indicating that they understood.
After entering the mansion full of mahogany furniture and clean wooden floors, Sigmund invited the two to sit down. Seeing that Orles had never taken off her clothes, he did not pursue it too much. In his opinion, this person should be a maid or Heshia's sister.
"I wonder where Miss Heshia is from. Judging from your appearance and behavior, you should be from a relatively wealthy and prosperous place."
"My friend and I are from the Land of Roses, where there are tall trees and forests, and technology is also very advanced. However, we don't know how we ended up here, so it will take a lot of time to find the way home." Tilan thought about it and answered.
"The Land of Roses..." The other party touched his beard, as if he was recalling where this name appeared and was recorded.
Unfortunately, this term did not appear in the history and knowledge he knew.
"What is Miss Heshia good at? This land is not peaceful. If you are alone, it may be difficult to get out." After thinking about it, he cared about other situations.
"When I was a child, I saw many court craftsmen sewing clothes, and I learned a little bit myself. I should be able to make a living with this." The girl thought about it and said it this way, which was more in line with the other party's cognition in the current environment.
"Court craftsman?" The other party was thinking about the meaning behind this word.
"Yes." Tilan waved her hand and asked Orles to bend down. Then she took out the only hair ornament from the lining of her clothes. It was a flower made of silver leaves and ice crystal gems, which was exquisite and beautiful incompatible with the current world.
"This..." Looking at the hair ornament handed over by Heshia, the other party exclaimed slightly and watched it carefully.
It can be said that it is extremely extravagant and wasteful to have the leisure to make such impractical jewelry, which indirectly shows that the other party has an extraordinary identity.
Sigmund, who had many doubts, also dispelled many doubts at this time.
After watching for a few minutes, he returned the hair ornament to Heshia with a little reluctance.
"In that case, it looks like Miss Heshia will need to stay with us for a while."
Soon, the maid brought over some brewed tea, and the two drank it leisurely. Sigmund chatted with Heshia for a long time and found that although the girl did not understand the environmental history of the surrounding land, her logical thinking and depth of thought in understanding things were far beyond the reach of those rough people on the street. This showed that she had received an excellent education and was relatively experienced.
"Although I don't know Miss Heshia's identity yet, judging from your conversation, you should be trained as an important heir. It's too humiliating to be just a craftsman in the city." He sighed.
"Unfortunately, my status and position are not enough to give you better treatment directly. Otherwise, you and your companions will stay here temporarily, and then I will negotiate with the Elders' Council to give you status and treatment that matches your status."
"This..." The girl thought for a while.
"Thank you, Mr. Sigmund. Actually, there is no need to be so ostentatious. My companions and I just want to stay here temporarily. It would be great if we can borrow books from the library later."
"Hahaha, this is not difficult. The reason why the borrowing fee is so high is that too many people do not respect knowledge. They don't understand that those words and records that are flipped through casually are the precious lessons recorded by the predecessors with so much effort and effort."
"If possible, Miss Heshia, please write a few memoirs during your stay in the mountain fort. We also need to know the news from the unknown and distant places."
"That's okay." If she really wants to write, there is simply too much, from the first era to the sixth era. Compared with ordinary federal people, Heshia herself knows a lot of historical secrets because of her identity as a singer. She has obtained more details of ancient history from the ghost princess and the cult.
In a sense, if thousands of years of history can be sorted out in detail, we can slowly grasp the laws of rise and fall of the development of the times and see through many flashy current events. It's a pity that more people just treat history as a pure story and don't pay attention to the various factors behind it, such as culture, system, climate, economy, etc.
"Hahaha, then it's settled."
Sigmund then brought Heshia to the meeting hall again. With the greeting of this middle-level figure of the Gray Feather Tribe, the people in the meeting hall respectfully completed various formalities and handed Heshia two nameplates that symbolized her identity.
Not only that, the house where the two lived was also quickly arranged. Just to the west of the mountain fortress, there was a two-story stone brick cottage with a quiet environment. Not far away was a tree-lined cemetery. Such a seemingly simple house was a place of shelter that many local people would never get in their lifetime.
While expressing her gratitude, Heshia also felt the disparity of the times.
But now, they can finally settle down temporarily.
(End of this chapter)
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